Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B.L.Wt. 2226-200, Jonathan Dye, Va.

SERVICE
Wa.
★ Dye, Jonathan
NUMBER
B.L.Wt. 2226-200
CONTENTS

This is to Certify, That it appears from a List in this Office of such Officers and Soldiers of the Virginia Continental Line, during the Revolutionary War, as settled their Accounts, and received Certificates for the balance of their Full Pay, according to an Act of Assembly, passed the November Session, 1781, that a Certificate issued on the 24 th day of November 1783 , in the name of Jonathan Dyer as Lieutenant for £44. 15. 4, which Certificate appears to have been delivered to Mr. Towles and was given for services prior to the 1st January, 1782.
Soldier - pay as Ensign from 1st January 1777 to 19th June following.
{ No Seal of Office. }
Given under my hand at the Auditor's Office, Richmond, this 10 th day of March 188 Z.
J. H. Heath AUDITOR.

HEIRS OF JONATHAN DYE.
[To accompany bill H. R. No. 717.]
————— APRIL 6, 1838. —————
Mr. TALIAFERRO, from the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, made the following
REPORT:
The Committee on Revolutionary Claims, to whom the petition of Richard and Sarah C. Davis, late Sarah C. Dye, was referred, report:
That the petitioners claim the seven years' half pay promised the widows and children of such officers as should die in the military service of the United States, in the war of the Revolution; and they found their claim on the allegation that Lieutenant Jonathan Dye, under whom they claim, was killed in the battle of Brandywine. The claimants exhibit with their petition satisfactory evidence to show the following facts: That Jonathan Dye was a lieutenant in the Virginia continental line of the army aforesaid, and that he was killed in the battle of Brandywine; that at the time of his death he left a widow, Sarah Ann Dye, and one child only, Nancy Dye, who died in the lifetime of her said mother, intestate, unmarried, and without issue; that Sarah Ann Dye, widow of Lieutenant Jonathan, departed this life, leaving one child only, Sarah C. Dye, half sister to Nancy Dye, deceased, as aforesaid. It does not appear that Sarah Ann Dye, widow of Jonathan Dye, has received the seven years' half pay due to her under the resolution of Congress of the — day of —, as the widow of an officer in the continental line of the army who was killed in battle. And as it appears she lived till the 31st of December, 1813, leaving an only child, the petitioner, Sarah C. Davis, who is proven to be the sole heir of her mother, and, as such, entitled to the seven years' half pay due to and not received by her mother, the committee consider the claim of the petitioners well founded, and report a bill for their relief.
Thomas Allen, print.

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General Assembly of Virginia Chap 54th.
An act placing certain persons therein mentioned on the pension list.
"Be it enacted by the General Assembly, that the persons herein named shall be placed on the pension list, and annually have and receive the following allowances, payable in like manner and proportions with other pensioners: Charles Cook, a soldier, disabled by a wound received at the Battle of James Town, the sum of forty dollars; Sarah Ann Dye, the widow of Jonathan Dye, who was a Lieutenant in the Revolutionary war, and killed at the Battle of Brandywine, the sum of forty Dollars."
On the 16 th Nov r 1783, Nancy Dye, Heir at law of Lt. Jonathan Dye, received a land warrant N o 1968 for 2666 2 / 3 acres.
Given under my hand at the Auditor's Office of Virginia this 10 th March 1838
(Signed) Jas E. Heath Aud r

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At a court held for the County of Lancaster on the 16 th Day of April 1838
It appears from satisfactory evidence this day produced before the County Court of Lancaster County, State of Virginia, now in session, That Sarah C. Davis, wife of Richard Davis, is Sole heir at law of Jonathan Dye and Sarah Ann Dye, late the widow of Jonathan Dye, but now Dead, which is ordered to be certified.
I, Benjamin M. Walker, clerk of the court of the County afore- said, hereby certify, That the foregoing is a true copy taken from the records of said court In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said County Court this 26 th day of April 1838.
(Signed) B. M. Walker.
Office of the Sec. Sen. of the U. S.
June 30. 1838.
I certify that the foregoing papers are truly copied from the original, accompanying the Bill from the House of Rep's. No 717 now before the Senate
Abner Dickinson Secretary Sen. U.S.

Jonathan Dye • V. 2226.

DEPARTMENT OF WAR.
Regulations for the heirs of Officers and Soldiers of the Revolutionary Army, who were slain by the enemy, or who have died since the war, and have not received land from the United States.
By an act of Congress of the 16th September, 1776, it is provided that the Officers and Soldiers who engaged for, and continued to serve during the war, or until discharged by Congress, and the heirs of such Officers and Soldiers as shall be slain by the enemy, shall receive land in proportion to their rank.
N. B. Those who engaged for three years, or for any other period than during the war, or who died of sickness, fatigue, or casualty, are not entitled to land from the United States.
The following declaration (and enclosed blank form of heirship) must be filled up and signed by the proper authorities:
State of Virginia . . . . . } County of Lancaster } We Rich & Davis & Sarah b: the said Davis, his wife, Heirs at Law, of Jona- than Dye do, upon oath, testify and declare, to the best of my knowledge and belief, that the said Jonathan Dye . . . . . did enter the service in 1776, for the term of and served as a Lieutenant in the Regiment No. . . . . under the command of Colonel . . . . . of the line; and that he continued in the service aforesaid until The we further declare that we have never received a warrant for the bounty land promised to said Jona- than Dye . . . . . on the part of the United States; nor do we believe that he ever received it, or transferred his claim to it in any manner whatsoever: therefore,
Know all men by these presents. That We Rich & S. b: Davis — aforesaid, do hereby constitute and appoint John Taliaferro — — — to be our true and lawful attorney, for us and in our name to demand and receive from the Secretary of War of the United States, a warrant for the quantity of land due to us as aforesaid; and our said attorney is hereby fully authorized and empowered to constitute and appoint one or more substitutes or attorneys under him, for the special purposes above expressed. And our said Attorney is also au- thorized to exchange said warrant for Scrip, & to sell & ad- sign the said Scrip — Witness our hands & Rich & Davis RLB Sealed, The 29 th day of June . . . 1838 — Sarah b Davis  RLB
Personally appeared the abovenamed Richard & Sarah b: Davis — subscriber to the foregoing declaration, and made oath to the same, and in my presence acknowledged the power of attorney thereto subjoined to be their free act and deed, for the purposes therein mentioned. Given un- der my hand, as a Magistrate in the County of Lancaster, The 29 th day of June — 1838 Cyrus Doggett Justice of the Peace.
In testimony that the above written Cyrus Doggett was a magistrate authorized to administer oaths, and take acknowledgments, &c., in the State of Virginia at the above date, and that his name there subscribed appears to me to be his usual signature, I have here- unto affixed the county seal, and subscribed my name and quality, at my office . . . . . this 29 th day of June . . . . . 1838
B. W. Tucker C. Clerk, &c.